Re: [PATCH v2 3/7] firmware: dmi: Read additional information when decoding DMI table

Mario Limonciello
2025-12-17T21:23:12Z

On 12/17/25 3:21 PM, Yazen Ghannam wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 17, 2025 at 03:09:33PM -0600, Mario Limonciello wrote:
>> On 12/17/25 3:03 PM, Yazen Ghannam wrote:
>>> On Tue, Dec 16, 2025 at 06:33:50AM -0600, Mario Limonciello (AMD) wrote:
>>>> Type 40 entries (Additional information) are summarized in section
>>>> 7.41 as part of the SMBIOS specification. Save these entries when
>>>> decoding the DMI tables.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Why can't an interested user just use dmidecode?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Yazen
>>
>> They could. The reason for doing it in this series is the same reason for
>> the one that we did the S5 bit.
>>
>> It shows up in the logs, you can tie regressions to the AGESA version at
>> specifically at the time of the failure if they've done BIOS updates since
>> then.
>
> Yes, right. Sorry, I mixed this up with the debugfs patch.
>
> We need to save it here so the init code can find it.
>
> But why do we need a debugfs entry for it?

Ah. That one I don't feel strongly about.

I used it when I was getting the series working and it felt like a waste
to toss.